Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap
Dr. Eric Conway writes:
Happy New Year Morgan Fine and Performing Arts Community!
I
am excited to share with you that Morgan Fine and Performing Arts
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Theatre Arts, Dr. Shirley
Basfield Dunlap, was nominated for two distinguished awards. Dr. Dunlap
was recently inducted into the National Theatre Conference, a
professional society of directors. Dr. Dunlap was also nominated for
Best Director from this year’s Broadway World Regional Awards. Please
see article and link to article below.
Shirley, you make us proud at Morgan! Congratulations!
EC
Dr. Brenda Bowe Johnson
1/4/2019
Dr.
Shirley Basfield Dunlap of Morgan State University (MSU) was inducted
into The National Theatre Conference at the historic Gramercy Park
Mansion. The Players, a private social club founded in New York City by
the noted 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, recently.
Associate
Professor and Coordinator of Theatre Arts in the Department of Fine and
Performing Arts at Morgan, Dr. Dunlap was nominated by Black Theatre
pioneer Woodie King, Jr. and Baltimore’s Chesapeake Shakespeare
Company’s Artistic Director Ian Gallanar.
The
New York Theatre Conference, a professional society founded in 1925, is
made up of distinguished directors, playwrights and theatre scholars
from the American Theatre community. Its purpose includes exploring ways
of best serving the interests of the American Theatre, and to initiate,
encourage and support projects of value and significance with a view to
strengthening and broadening the influence of theatre as well as to
connect, to support and to advocate for the American Theatre.
Dr.
Dunlap also received a nomination for Best Director from this year’s
Broadway World Regional Awards for the play “Red Velvet,” produced by
the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. “Red Velvet” is a ‘bioplay’ based on
the life of Ira Aldridge, an African American Shakespearean actor.
Broadway
World is an online news service, based in New York City, which provides
daily coverage of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional and
international theatre productions.
Dr. Dunlap will direct the Spring 2019 Morgan State Fine and Performing Arts musical production of “Dream Girls.”
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